Nature - Nurture Debate: Outline

Question 1

Evolutionary Explanations of Nature:

Bowlby (1969)

Answer 1

proposed that attachment was adaptive because it meant that an infant was not likely to be protected and thus survive.

Question 2

Other Explanations of Nurture:

Bateson et al. (1956)

Answer 2

suggested the ‘double bind theory of schizophrenia’ which suggests that schizophrenia develops in children who frequently receive contradictory messages from their parents and thus lack a consistent construction of reality.